Solar Power World

Georgia solar company to install North Georgia’s largest solar project

The small town of Dahlonega, Georgia will soon be home to the largest commercial solar array in North Georgia. The install is being handled by Solar Energy USA. Patrons of Northview Orthopaedic Associates will see a live TV feed of the solar power that is being generated to power medical devices. Solar Energy USA of Atlanta, Georgia recently broke ground on what will be the largest commercial solar installation in the area – a 163 solar panel install for Northview... Read More

New Grid-Tie System Packages Make Solar Installations A Cinch

SunWize Technologies, Inc., has incorporated the new Solon Blue solar module into over 40 new configurations of its popular Grid-Tie System packages. These systems are available for immediate delivery from SunWize facilities in Kingston, NY and Rancho Cucamonga, CA.0 SunWize Grid-Tie System packages are pre-engineered, complete residential and small commercial solar solutions that come with permit-ready documentation and a comprehensive installation manual. They are ordered with... Read More

Haiti Still Receives Aid From Solar Four Months After Quake

The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) recently announced that the 11th Hour Project of Palo Alto, California, has awarded SELF a US $500,000 grant to support the solar electrification of seven health clinics for Partners In Health (PIH) in Haiti. The clinics, operated by Zanmi Lasante (ZL), are located in the remote mountain highlands of Haiti and do not have access to the electric grid. In the aftermath of the January earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the health care facilities have... Read More

Solar PV Installations Predicted to Rise 93% to 13.6 GW In 2010

Because of a surge of sales in Germany combined with plunging prices, iSuppli predicts solar installations will rise to 13.6 Gigawatts (GW) in 2010, up 92.9 percent from 7.0GW in 2009. The previous forecast, released in February, called for 8.3GW worth of installations in 2010, up 64 percent from 2009.The strong rise in PV installations in 2010 will be driven by robust market conditions in the second and fourth quarters, which will more than compensate for slower performances... Read More

Dept. Of Energy Gives $20.5M To Community Projects

Steven Chu, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, announced that five projects will receive a combined US $20.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support deployment of community-based renewable energy projects which include biomass, wind and solar installations.The projects selected by the Department of Energy will be leveraged with approximately $167 million in local government and private industry funding. The Department of Energy estimates that these... Read More

Study Reveals Massive Installation Delays For Solar Panels

A white paper put out by SolarTech and the initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, “Addressing Institutional Barriers, Opportunities for Streamlining Project Timelines” finds for every typical 4-5kW residential system, the average 5 day on-site installation masks an average of 100-120 days in procedural work. The white paper identifies challenges within today’s solar project development cycle and suggests methods to reduce project cycle times, while... Read More

Rooftop Solar Installations Growing Faster than Utility-Scale Solar

Private solar installations are really taking off nationwide. In just two years, (about the same length of time it takes to get a pair of 250 MW solar power plants approved in California, for example), homeowners and businesses have added that much power to the Californian grid, just from individual rooftops throughout the state. By July last year, 50,000 installations were supplying the California grid with 500 MW of solar power; the equivalent of two average sized solar power... Read More